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Speaker Packet

Nancy Bouchard, DDS, MHP has personally experienced the frustrations of not being able to get diagnostic radiographs on the first attempt. As a result, she is passionate about sharing tips, tricks, and experience to build the skills and confidence of dental professionals.

Dr. Bouchard’s lectures and workshops are intentionally tailored to educate and appeal to any member of the dental team.

Would you like to increase your skills and knowledge to be able to confidently expose and interpret radiographs?

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In this dynamic, student-centered, interactive roundtable discussion, the focus is on you and your unique challenges. Ask your most pressing questions and learn best practices for stress-free approaches to exposing radiographs.

During this lecture, you will decipher the significance behind many of the various “shadows” on dental radiographs, teasing out shades of meaning from the grays.

In this course, we will discuss all things panoramic, from patient positioning to interpretation, as well as up-to-the-minute information on radiation safety for the practitioner and patient.

This discussion will review the evidence and national guidelines to protect our patients and ourselves from the potential ill effects of radiation exposure in the dental office.

Tricks of the Radiolog y Trade

Interpreting the Blacks, Whites, and Grays of Radiographs

Sweeping Views - Optimizing Panoramic Radiographs

Radiation Safety - Are We Really Safe?

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Tricks of the Radiolog y Trade

In this dynamic, student-centered, interactive roundtable discussion, the focus is on you and your special, unique questions and challenges. Ask your most pressing questions and learn best practices for stress-free approaches to exposing radiographs.

Active participation is not just encouraged—it is essential. In this nontraditional small-group workshop, participants drive the agenda. You will have the opportunity to try hands-on approaches to different techniques and equipment.

With a combined seven decades of experience, Nancy Bouchard, DDS, MHP and Mary Ellen Sholes, AAS have taught this course for twenty years to overwhelming praise. Dr. Bouchard offers a master twist on technique as a dentist and former Clinical Instructor, while Ms. Sholes is a radiographic dental assistant working at Boston University Dental School who serves in a dual role, teaching students and managing the radiology clinic.

Although each course takes its own shape and pace, the curriculum inevitably reviews the basics of how to expose a fantastic radiograph and covers tricks and tips to adapt to the larger digital sensor. Every course is different, depending on questions and attendees’ priorities. From correcting overlap on bitewings to radiation safety to gagging, participants get real-world, hands-on training and the opportunity to practice placement on a manikin if they wish.

Do you wish you had a secret approach for gagging patients, small mouths, or crying children? Do you find it difficult or awkward to place bulky sensors?

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Discuss different approaches for imaging in difficult situations

Enumerate possible techniques to minimize gagging in patients

Develop techniques for placing bulky digital sensors

Describe how imaging expertise reduces practitioner and patient stress

Learning Objectives:

Suggested Audience: Dental Assistant, Hygienist, Dentist Suggested Format: Partial Day; Lecture, Workshop (small group), Keynote

Please bring the handout. We use it.

“Enjoyed the lecture, I’m very impressed. Audio/visual elements were more than excellent.”





Interpreting the Blacks, Whites, and Grays of Radiographs

Getting the perfect image is only the first step; understanding the story it is trying to tell is a completely different skill.

During this lecture, you will decipher the significance behind many of the various “shadows” on dental radiographs, teasing out shades of meaning from the grays.

This informative, engaging, comprehensive lecture shows and explains the clinical implications of a wide array of images, covering normal anatomic landmarks as well as the typical markers and appearance of decay and periodontal disease. Intriguing cases will also be reviewed, as well as up-to-date information on radiation safety.

When is the little gray spot a cavity and not cervical burnout? Is the periodontal status healthy or not? What is normal? What isn’t?


Identify normal anatomic landmarks

Point out caries

Interpret panoramic images

Evaluate the periodontal status

Understand up-to-the-moment radiographic safety measures




Take the Learning Deeper in this Hands-On Workshop:

Behind the Shadows: Practice Interpreting Radiographs

The whole dental team can experience the challenges, idiosyncrasies, and intricacies of radiographic interpretation. Build confidence and competence through direct examination, engaging discussion, and personal coaching in this immersive, hands-on segment, which focuses on applying and sharpening the observation and identification skills reviewed in the lecture segment of this workshop.

“I liked this excellent speaker, she is very thorough.”





Sweeping Views - Optimizing Panoramic Radiographs

The technology of the panoramic radiograph has progressed in the digital era, with exciting potential for clinical advances and increased diagnostic abilities.. The panoramic machine now has more images to expose and reduces radiation exposure, especially for children.

But studies of image quality obtained in panoramic images—especially in pediatric patients—reveal there is still room for improvement. A 2012 paper went so far as to suggest that only 11% of sampled panoramic radiographs were free of positioning errors that compromised image quality. The most common reasons for low quality panoramic images have been identified—and what is known can be prevented and corrected.

In this course, we will discuss all things panoramic, from patient positioning to interpretation, as well as up-to-the-minute information on radiation safety for the practitioner and patient.

Why is there a little white triangle on the bottom of the panoramic radiograph? Why aren’t the maxillary anterior roots visible?

Why do the teeth appear distorted, too small, or too blurry to adequately diagnose?


Enumerate the steps for correctly positioning a panoramic radiograph patient

Describe the characteristics of an ideal panoramic image

Identify the pitfalls which produce a poor image and how to correct them

Define when panoramic is, and when it is not, the best image for diagnosis

Interpret normal landmarks, ghost images, and common pathologic findings




“Excellent speaker with a wonderful sense of humor. I learned a lot today and will use this information at work.”

“Dr. Bouchard is an energetic and interesting speaker. She knows what she's talking about, and it was great to have time to diagnose x-rays on our own.”





Radiation Safety - Are We Really Safe?

With steady, near-daily advances in science and technology, the clinical uses of radiation have become monumentally safer since the earliest days of imaging, when Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen took pictures of the bones of his wife’s hand.

So, if we are so safe, why do concerns about dental radiographs continue to be raised online, in some media outlets, and even by some of our patients?

This discussion will review the evidence and national guidelines to protect our patients and ourselves from the potential ill effects of radiation exposure in the dental office.

You’ve seen articles in the media claiming dental X-rays are harmful. What do we say to patients who have concerns? Is there a true concern for the patient and for us?


Understand the science of radiation exposure

Review the methods taken to keep patients safe Articulate the need to keep operators safe while exposing x-rays on patients

Describe accurate, reassuring, natural-language messages that can be used to address patient concerns about radiation from dental radiographs




“Dr. Bouchard had good use of slides, photos, and radiographs. She was excellent with putting it all together. I liked the handouts

that I can take back to the office to share. Very good!“

“Very informative lecture, I did not look at my watch once. Dr. Bouchard is an awesome presenter. A+!”





Nancy Bouchard’s passion for dental education sprang from her own life, experiencing dentistry from many perspectives, and having worked in many roles of dentistry. As a result, she intentionally tailors her lectures and workshops to educate and appeal to all members of the dental team.

Before becoming a dentist, she attended Forsyth School for Dental Hygienists and worked for many years as a hygienist in general, pediatric, and periodontal practices. She personally experienced the frustrations of not being able to get diagnostic radiographs on the first attempt. As a result, she is passionate about sharing tips, tricks, and experience to build the skills and confidence of dental professionals.

Dr. Bouchard taught as a faculty member at Forsyth School for Dental Hygienists and Boston University Dental School, where she instructed dental and dental hygiene students in radiation techniques, safety, and interpretation. As a graduate of the University of Maryland Dental School, she is currently a general dentist in Florida.

Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (multiple) Charter Oaks Dental Meeting, Connecticut (multiple) Forsyth School for Dental Hygienists (multiple) Greater New York Dental Meeting (multiple) Massachusetts Dental Hygiene Association (multiple) Texas Dental Association (multiple) Valley District Dental Society Vermont Annual Session Yankee Dental Congress (multiple)

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“We’ve got two courses that are almost sold-out (two months before the CSDA meeting). No surprises...this has happened every year: Tricks of the

Radiology Trade with Dr. Nancy Bouchard and Mary Ellen Sholes.“

–CSDA Annual Meeting Facebook message






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